The story goes like this: After Malik paid Williams for sex, she fought with him about money, going on to hit him with a frying pan. He hit her back with the frying pan. She grabbed an electric cord and wound it around his neck. He got loose and then did the same to her, resulting in her strangulation.

Via the Wall Street Journal, "He acknowledged packing her in the luggage and abandoning it in a street." But, he says, she attacked him first. (He was not visibly injured.)

Both Williams and Malik have pretty full rap sheets, including, in the case of Malik, currently being on probation for attempted robbery -- he stole money and a public-benefits card from a woman, then punched her in the stomach when she tried to get them back.